Wednesday 19 December 2012 Rāapa 19 Hakihea 2012

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  BERWALD: Tragic Overture, Estrella de Soria; Reminiscences from the Norwegian Mountains; Racing; Symphony No 2 in D, Sinfonie capricieuse; Symphony No 4 in Eb - Royal Phil/Ulf Björlin (EMI CDM 5 65866)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  CLEMENTI: Preludio, alla Haydn Op 19; Sonata in F minor Op 13/6; Capriccio in Bb Op 17; Sonata in G minor Op 34/2; Preludio, alla Mozart Op 19; Sonata in F Op 33/2; Fantasia on Au Clair de la Lune Op 48 - Andreas Staier (fpno) (Teldec 3984 26731)

  2:30 approx - Disc 3

  BACH: Arias & Choruses from the Christmas Oratorio - Nancy Argenta, Katie Pringle (sops), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Hans Peter Blochwitz (ten), Olaf Bär (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Archiv 427 653)

  3:40 approx - Disc 4

  CORELLI: Sonatas, in F Op 3/1; in D Op 3/2; in C Op 4/1; in G minor Op 4/2; in Bb Op 3/3; in B minor Op 3/4; in A Op 4/3; in D Op 4/4; in D minor Op 3/5; in G Op 3/6; in A minor Op 4/5; in E Op 4/6 - Purcell Quartet (Chandos CHAN 0526)

  4:55 approx - Disc 5

  NIELSEN: Prelude to the second act of Saul & David; Rapsodic Overture; The Mother; Little Suite for strings Op 1; Pan & Syrinx Op 49; En Sagadrøm; Overture, Prelude & Dance of the Cockrells from Maskarade - Odense SO/Tamás Vetö (Big Ben 571 011)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 CANNABICH: Symphony No 47 in G - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.554340)

  SCHUMANN: Arabeske in C Op 18 - Freddy Kempf (pno) (BIS CD 960)

  TCHAIKOVSKY arr Grafe: Lensky's Aria, from Eugene Onegin - Sol Gabetta (cello), Prague Phil/Charles Olivieri-Munroe (RCA Red Seal 88697 35962)

  LOVREGLIO: Fantasia on Verdi's La Traviata - Mark Walton (cl), Paul Bateman (pno) (Chalumeau EBY 001)

  BRIDGE: Two poems, The open air; The story of my heart - London Phil/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 243)

  7:00 A HOLMES: Trois anges sont venus ce soir - Sandrine Piau (sop), Sonia Wieder-Atherton (cello), Aurélie Saraf (harp) (Naïve V 5216)

  ROSSINI: Semiramide, Overture - Mexican State SO/Enrique Bátiz (Brilliant Classics 93994)

  GERSHWIN: Fascinatin' Rhythm, from Lady, be Good! - Al Gallodoro (reeds), Harmonie Ensemble, New York/Steven Richman (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7492)

  J STRAUSS II: Tritsch-Tratsch Polka - New Zealand SO/William Southgate (Continuum NZSO 100)

  PIAZZOLLA trans Hubert: Three Tangos - Martha Argerich, Eduardo Hubert (pno duet) (EMI 2 67051)

  WAGNER: Tannhäuser, Procession into the Hall of Song - Chorus of the Royal Swedish Opera, Royal Swedish Orch/Leif Segerstam (Naxos 8.557714)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: GIORGINAKIS: Therismos, from Greek Memories - Arada Guitar Duo (Landor LAN 284)

  WALDTEUFEL: Dans les nuages, Waltz Op 208 - Czecho-Slovak State Phil, Kosice/Alfred Walter (Marco Polo 8.223438)

  PAGANINI: Sonata No 4 for violin & guitar - Moshe Hammer (vln), Norbert Kraft (gtr) (Naxos 8.553141)

  SMETANA: Furiant, from The Bartered Bride - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10518)

  VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Spring - Joshua Bell (vln/dir), ASMF (Sony 88697 11013)

  BERLIOZ: Beatrice & Benedict, Overture - Helsinki Phil/Vladimir Ashkenazy (Ondine ODE 1188)

• 9:00 AM. Composers of the Week

  British Christmas Music

  BAX: Mater Ora Filium - Gabrieli Consort/Paul McCreesh (DG 477 7635)

  MAW: Our Lady's song; Balulalow; Corpus Christi Carol; Sweté Jesus - Oxford Schola Cantorum/Mark Shepherd, Simon Jones (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67615)

  RUTTER: Brother Heinrich's Christmas - Brian Kay (narrator), Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter (Collegium COL CD 115)

  TRAD arr Pearsall: In dulci jubilo - Choir of Westminster Abbey/James O'Donnell (Hyperion CDA 67716)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  DVORÁK: Serenade in D minor for wind instruments Op 44 - Nash Ensemble (CRD 3410)

  MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition - Katya Apekisheva (pno) (Onyx 4085)

  BRAHMS: Alto Rhapsody Op 53 - Ewa Wolak (contralto), men of Warsaw Philharmonic Choir, Warsaw Phil/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.572694)

  BIZET: Symphony in C - Les Siècles/François-Xavier Roth (Mirare MIR 036)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Lighten Up

  Music from film, the stage and international classical charts

  Today's Christmas Panto Story

  PORTER: Overture; Come to the supermarket (in Old Peking), from Aladdin

  Magician...................... Cyril Ritchard

  men's chorus, CBS Studio Orch/Robert Emmett Dolan (rec 1957) (Sony SK 48205)

  TOMLINSON: Dances from Aladdin - Slovak Radio SO/Ernest Tomlinson (Marco Polo 8.223513)

  MENKEN: Prince Ali; A whole new world, from Aladdin

  The Genie.................... Robin Williams

  Aladdin........................ Brad Kane

  Princess Jasmine.......... Lea Salonga

  men's chorus, Original Soundtrack Orch/David Friedman (Walt Disney Records 473 708)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor Op 21 - Evgeny Kissin (pno), Moscow Phil/Dmitri Kitaenko (RCA 09026 68378)

  ARBAN arr Markovich: Variations on a Tyrolean Song - Sergei Nakariakov (tpt), Alexander Markovich (pno) (Teldec 4509 94554)

  POULENC: Figure humaine - Swedish Radio Choir/Peter Dijkstra (Channel Classics CCS SA 31411)

  (Box 123, Wellington or concert@radionz.co.nz)

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in F Op 59/1, Razumovsky - Takács Quartet (rec 2001) (Decca 470 847)

  HANDEL: Keyboard Suite No 2 in F HWV427, from Set I (publ 1720); D SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonata in B minor Kk27 - Murray Perahia (pno) (rec 1997) (Sony SK 62785)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  MENOTTI: Introduction, March & Shepherd's Dance, from Amahl & the Night Visitors - New Zealand SO/Andrew Schenck (Koch International 3-7005)

  DUFAY: Ave Regina caelorum; BYRD: Laudibus in sanctis - Auckland Dorian Choir/Peter Godfrey (Kiwi SLD 45)

  SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata No 20 in A D959 - Michael Endres (pno) (Capriccio 10 730)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  OFFENBACH: Orpheus in the Underworld, Overture - Swiss Romande Orch/Ernest Ansermet (Decca 425 083)

  RACHMANINOV: Third movement, Allegro scherzando, from Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor Op 18 - Sviatoslav Richter (pno), Warsaw Phil/Stanislav Wislocki (Philips 456 952)

  FERRER: Fantasy on the Quartet from Verdi's Rigoletto - Pepe Romero (gtr) (Philips 446 090)

  TURINA: Three Andalusian Dances Op 8 - Jordi Masó (pno) (Naxos 8.557150)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Neapolitan Song Op 63 - BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (Chandos CHAN 10424)

  ALABIEV: The Russian Nightingale - Natalie Dessay (sop), Berlin SO/Michael Schønwandt (Virgin Classics 3 63332)

  PURCELL: Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary - John Wallace (tpt), Wallace Collection/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 7067/8)

  VIRGILI: Ninna-Nanna a Gesu bambino - Arsys Bourgogne/Pierre Cao (Naïve V 5319)

  LLOYD: Intercom Baby - Martin Roscoe (pno) (Albany AR 003)

  TRAD arr Runswick: The Virgin Mary had a baby boy - Cecilian Singers/Nan Anderson, Graham Hollobon (org) (TreeHouse T 0017)

  KORNGOLD: Fifth movement, Tempo di minuetto, molto moderato, from Baby Serenade Op 24 - North West German Phil/Werner Andreas Albert (CPO 999 077)

  BYRD: Lullaby my sweet little baby - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (Coro COR 16027)

  BURNETT: Melancholy Baby - Paragon Ragtime Orch/Rick Benjamin (Dorian DIS 80107)

  MONTSALVATGE: Canción de cuna para dormir a un negrito, from Cinco canciones negras - Measha Brueggergosman (sop), Justus Zeyen (pno) (DG 477 8101)

  GOUNOD arr Stoltzman: Jewel Song, from Faust - Richard Stoltzman (cl), Slovak Phil/Arthur Fagen (RCA 09026 68817)

  HOLST: Walt Whitman Overture Op 7 - Ulster Orch/JoAnn Falletta (Naxos 8.572914)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Charles Rosen (1927-2012)

  The American pianist, writer, musicologist, critic, polymath passed away last week at the age of 85. In this 1999 interview recorded during a visit to New Zealand, Charles Rosen talks with Tim Dodd (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  BRAUNFELS: The Annunciation, a mystery play in four acts

  Andreas Gradherz............ Robert Holl

  Mother.............................. Hanna Schwarz

  Violaine............................ Juliane Banse

  Mara................................. Janina Baechle

  Jakobäus........................... Adrian Eröd

  Peter von Ulm.................. Mathias Klink

  Peter's servant................... Mauro Peter

  Angel's voice.................... Vanessa Goikoetxea

  Schulze von Rothenstein.. Wolfgang Klose

  Workers............................ Johannes Stermann,

  Timo Janzen, Matthias Ettmayr

  Women............................. Jutta Bethsold, Sonja Philippin

  Bavarian Radio Chorus, Munich Radio Orch/Ulf Schirmer (recorded in the Prinzregententheater, Munich by German Radio, Munich)

• 10:20 PM. Day's End

  LISZT: Ballade No 2 in B minor - Alexandra Dariesco (pno) (Champs Hill CHRCD 035)

  MOZART: Horn Concerto No 4 in Eb K495 - Alan Civil (horn), Royal Phil/Rudolf Kempe (EMI CD EMX 2004)

  SVENDSEN: Polonaise No 2 in D Op 28 - Danish National Radio SO/Thomas Dausgaard (Chandos CHAN 9932)

  11:00 PROKOFIEV: Violin Sonata No 2 in D Op 94a - Wilma Smith (vln), Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

  BORODIN: String Quartet No 2 in D - Shostakovich Quartet (Alto ALC 1111)

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